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As a German surname, Beh may have originated as a variant of Boehm, which is a toponymic surname from Bohemia. It is also a spelling of Southern Min pronunciations of three Chinese surnames, listed in the table below. [1] These spellings of the Chinese surnames are often found among Malaysian Chinese. [2]
The German surname Seng in most cases originated as a toponymic surname for a person who lived on land which had been cleared by fire, from Middle High German sengen 'to singe'. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In some cases it originated as an occupational surname for a farmer, from MHG senge 'ready to cut (of grain)', or as a patronymic from the hypocorism Seng ...
The surname Koh found among descendants of the Germans of Yugoslavia originated from the German surname Koch. The surname Kuhač is similarly derived. [3] As a Korean surname, Koh is a variant spelling of the surname most commonly spelled as Ko (based on its McCune–Reischauer transcription; Korean: 고; Hanja: 高; RR: Go). [4] [5]
A character with only one meaning is a monosemous character, and a character with two or more meanings is a polysemous character. According to statistics from the "Chinese Character Information Dictionary", among the 7,785 mainland standard Chinese characters in the dictionary, there are 4,139 monosemous characters and 3,053 polysemous characters.
Yung is also a variant spelling of the English and Scottish surname Young. These surnames originated from the Middle English word yong. [3] Yung may also originate from Cyrillic transcription of the German surname Jung (Юнг), which can be found among the descendants of Germans in the former Soviet Union.
This name of German origin has a strong sound and a meaning to match: “battle woman.” 21. Helga. Helga is an Old Norse name with a Germanic meaning of “holy,” “blessed” and “sacred ...
The Chinese expression "Three Zhang Four Li" (simplified Chinese: 张三李四; traditional Chinese: 張三李四; pinyin: Zhāng Sān Lǐ Sì) is used to mean "anyone" or "everyone", [4] but the most common surnames are currently Wang in mainland China [5] and Chen in Taiwan. [6]
The 2010 United States census found 2,222 people with the surname Shum, making it the 13,627th-most-common surname in the country. This represented an increase from 2,025 (13,724th-most-common) in the 2000 census. In both censuses, about four-fifths of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, and fourteen percent as White. [5]